Milk-bottle support



Pdtentd May 17,1921.

ATTORNEYS.

,D. DUNN. M'ILK some SUPPORT. APPLICATION 'FILED. APR. 1], {9?0.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful 'Milk-Bottle Support, of which the followin the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that.

the invention is not limited to the specific details shown and described, as long as they are within the spirit or scope of the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a holder for a bottle embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section thereof.

Fig. 3 represents a bottom plan view thereof. v N

Fig. 4 represents a rear view thereof partly broken away. I

Fig. 5 represents a perspective View of a detached member of the device.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings.

1 designates a hood consisting of a hollow body closed on its top, sides and front, and having in its bottom the opening 2 through which the neckof a bottle may be introduced into the interior of the hood. The back wall of the hood'is formed with the opening 3 which provides for lightness of said wall and consequently of the hood.

In the lower portion of said back wall is the passage 4; which extends horizontally across said wall and is adapted to receive the resilient or spring bottle-holding plate or flap 5 which having its rear portion seated in said passage is adapted to occupy the hood 1 above the bottom of the latter and to be raised'therefrom by the insertion of the mouth and consequently of the neck of a bottle upwardly into the hood, as w1ll be hereinafter more fully explained.

The forward end of said flap is cut away Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Ma 17 1921 Application filed A rny, 1920.

Serial No. 374,538.

forming the recess 6 which is adaptedto be above a portion 'of the opening 2 in the bottom of the hood, the front portion of said flap projecting somewhat forward from what may be termed the rear wall of said openlng, as most clearly shown in Figs. 2

' and 3.

In order to retain the flap in position its rear end has angularly formed with it or otherwise connected therewith as an elbow the limb 7 whoseedge portions are adapted to be seated in the recesses 7? in the outer side of the rear wall of the hood,'whereby said limb is flush with said outer side of said wall, as most clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Rising from the top of said rear wall of the hood is the flange 8 and depending from the bottom thereof is the flange 9 which flanges in the present casettre integral with said wall.

10 designates a plate adapted to connect right and left on said plate while also adapted to support the hood on the door jamb in normal position it being noticed that the outer terminal of said plate has thereon the vertically extending wall 13 which is adapted to limit the motion of the hood in the present case to the left and prevent the disright, but as noticed in Fig. l the door 13 closes said open endandso primarily prevents the removal of the bottle until the door is opened from within b yan occupant of the housesupplied with the milk.

The operation is as follows The hood is in position in Figs. 1 and 2 to receive a bottle which is outside of the door, as has been stated, it being noticed in Figs. 1 and 3 that a portion 14 of the front of the resilient flap 5 projects forward of the rear wall of the opening 2 in the bottom of the hood so that said portion is in the path of the mouth of the bottle in the normal condition of the device.

The distributer of the milk presents the mouth oi the bottle upwardly through the opening 2 and raises the bottle whereby the flap 5 owing to its resiliency yields and flexes upwardly, thus allowing said mouth and consequently the neck of the bottle to pass through the opening 2 in the bottom of the hood. When the flange of the neck of the bottle clears the wall 01' the recess 6 of said flap 5 the latter returns to normal position downwardly, and said wall of the recess springs under a part of said neck or.

the bottle and interlocks therewith. Then the bottle is let go and so it lowers when another portion of said neck seats ltself on exterior of the door or outside of a hall or apartment.

When the bottle is to be properly removed from the hood the door l8 is opened and the hood is then free to be disengaged from the plate 10 this being accomplished by sliding the hood inthe present case to the right until it clears said plate and the runways.

The limb 7 of the flap 5 is now exposed and accessible and the bdttle is grasped and the flap 5 drawn rearwardly through the passage 4 by said limb 7 as a handle, whereby said fiap emerges rearwardly through the passage 4 and consequently from the neck of the bottle and the opening 2 of the bottom of the hood is clear of said flap when the bottle may be removed from the hood downwardly through said opening and carried elsewhere.

The flap may now be returned into the hood and the latter restored to normal position on the plate 10 when the door is closed and the hood is held supported on said plate 10 as before, and consequently on the door jamb ready to receive another filled bottle.

In the flap 5 is the opening '16 which is adapted to render the former more pliable and resilient so as to be raised easily by the introduction of the bottle and then spring downwardly quickly. to engage the neck of the bottle beneath the flange thereof.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a bottle holding device of the character stated, a hood adapted to be movably supported adjacent to a door, an elbow shaped member composed of a horizontallyhood for detachable. attachment of the latter with the former and sustaining said hood in operative position on said jamb, said hood having an opening in its bottom, and a horizontally extending slidable flap member in the hood adapted to close partly said opening, and a vertically extending limb with which said flap is connected as an elbow, said limb being adapted to be retained on the back wall of said hood, said wall having therethrough in its bottom a passage in which said flap member is mova e.

'3. In a bottle holder of the character stated, a hood, a plate connectible with the jamb of a door, means on said plate and hood for detachable attachment of the latter with the former and sustaining said hood in operative position on said jamb, said hood having an opening in its bottom, and a horizontally extending slidable resilient flap member in the hood adapted to close partly said opening, and a vertically extending limb with which said flap is connected as an elbow, said limb being adapted to be retained on the back wall of said hood,

said wall having therethrough a passage in which said flap member is movable, and having in its rear face a recess in which said limb is adapted to be seated.

4:. In a bottle holding device of the character stated, a plate adapted to be secured adjacent to a door as a support for the device, said plate being provided with runways on the upper and lower ends thereof, a hood having an open bottom and provided with flanges which are supportable on and laterally slidable in said runways, and a resilient horizontal flap in said hood, said fiap'having a recess therein'for the engagement therewith of the neck of a bottle, the back plate of said hood having thereina passage to receive said flap, and said flap having a carrier consisting of a vertical limb extending angularly from said flap, and being movably attachable to a plate of the hood.

- DAVID DUNN.

W'itnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, N. BUSSINGER. 

